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john lawrence covers the sector for stevens. john, first of all, what can we expect from these two companies with the earnings coming out and what are you seeing with how americans are feeling as we head into the crucial retail season? >> certainly in the case of walmart i think we'll see that they're very bullish on what they've been able to do in the marketplace. some of the things that they've got planned for black friday, pretty aggressive. certainly the last several quarters, they're riding on a lot of good sales momentum because of these initiatives over the last couple year. i think we'll continue to see that. some of these ideas they put in place like the one hour guarantee for black friday and some of the announcements with -- at the end of the day, walmart when they're priced right, give that value to the customer and they're in stock, they do very well. and we continue to see that continuing. >> in terms of being priced right, is that a reflection of the sentiment of the nation right now just how consumers are feeling
john lawrence covers the sector for stevens. john, first of all, what can we expect from these two companies with the earnings coming out and what are you seeing with how americans are feeling as we head into the crucial retail season? >> certainly in the case of walmart i think we'll see that they're very bullish on what they've been able to do in the marketplace. some of the things that they've got planned for black friday, pretty aggressive. certainly the last several quarters, they're...
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john harwood joins us from the white house lawn this morning. and john, the big question is, will the president be listening to some of the ceo suggestions, or will this be more of a situation where the ceos are going to listen to what he's going to lay out? >> probably more of the latter than the former. i think the president sees his election having won 332 electoral votes in nearly all the swing states, giving him a little more strength in negotiations across the board. he's been involved in outreach for the last several days. yesterday, meeting with labor and liberal leaders. he's meeting today with those business leaders you mentioned. he's also communicating with the public directly with a press conference here with the white house this afternoon. and i think what the president's trying to do is build a constituency for this balanced approach he talked about, meaning spending cuts on the one hand, including two major entitlement programs, which are a big driver of the nation's spending problem. but also revenues and he's trying to figure o
john harwood joins us from the white house lawn this morning. and john, the big question is, will the president be listening to some of the ceo suggestions, or will this be more of a situation where the ceos are going to listen to what he's going to lay out? >> probably more of the latter than the former. i think the president sees his election having won 332 electoral votes in nearly all the swing states, giving him a little more strength in negotiations across the board. he's been...
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the answer is our own john harwood. >> what page are you on, john? >> page 925. >> you're in with a lot of -- i don't think brad pitt has much gray. >> he has some in his beard when it grows in. >> john, did they ask you your permission some when did you know this was going to happen? >> i got a message about a week ago from an editor there asking me for a picture. >> so that was it. they didn't ask permission, they were going to do it either way. >> well, i guess if i didn't give them a picture, they wouldn't have done it. >> can i ask you a personal question not about you? >> yes, you can. >> the president's gray was gone at the news conference, was it not? was that me or did you notice that the president seems like he's got the color back in his hair? >> i didn't notice that. maybe i wasn't looking closely enough. >> he looked great. >> i have to check it out. >> do you think he's using one of those products? >> i don't know. possibly. i had the.r people here when they were kidding me about you getting this, they said see if you'd let yours grow o
the answer is our own john harwood. >> what page are you on, john? >> page 925. >> you're in with a lot of -- i don't think brad pitt has much gray. >> he has some in his beard when it grows in. >> john, did they ask you your permission some when did you know this was going to happen? >> i got a message about a week ago from an editor there asking me for a picture. >> so that was it. they didn't ask permission, they were going to do it either way....
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. >>> still to come, rbc wealth management ceo john taft on why he thinks dividend stocks will protect your portfolio. >>> plus cftc commissioner bart chilton talks to us what needs to be done for the markets to open after a major disaster, something we saw after sandy. "squawk box" will be back right after this. >>> up next, spanning the sea with c-span, the ceo of the world's largest cargo leasing company talks global economic risk and outlook for the industry. that's next on "squawk box." >>> welcome back to "squawk box" this morning. take a look at futures. we have red arrows across the board, dow looks like it would open up 47 points higher, s&p off and nasdaq as well. >>> a continuation of the special shipping series, a ceo calls the container shipping market the ocean highway, jerry wang is co-ceo of seaspan corporation, one of the shipping leaders profiled in "dynasties of the sea" lori ann's new book. good morning, mr. wang. good to see you. >> good morning. good to hear from you. >> we've already had a little bit of conversation about this piece in the journal about the econo
. >>> still to come, rbc wealth management ceo john taft on why he thinks dividend stocks will protect your portfolio. >>> plus cftc commissioner bart chilton talks to us what needs to be done for the markets to open after a major disaster, something we saw after sandy. "squawk box" will be back right after this. >>> up next, spanning the sea with c-span, the ceo of the world's largest cargo leasing company talks global economic risk and outlook for the...
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you heard john boehner say that already. we've had voteses in the senate where we've gotten rid of tax credits. i think that's a given. and i think that the vast majority of measures agree with that. the question is how do you do that and how do you allow taxes to rise at the same time you fix the real problem and that's uncontrolled entitlement spending and a government that has grown massively. >> i think if the house stands for anything, it's cut government spending as tom coburn said and i think we'll have to do more of it. we heard the mandate in 2010 where it was a clear mandate cut spending and we did, we cut $900 billion in spending that he can't like painful tos us. >> we'll continue our call to rise bol politics and make a deal. oufr guests this morning include mike jackson and also david zaslav. and the head of maris group. and douglas holtz-eakin. >> let's talk about eurozone finance ministers meeting to discuss whether to release a new tranche of fund to go greece. the leaders are not expected it to okay the fun
you heard john boehner say that already. we've had voteses in the senate where we've gotten rid of tax credits. i think that's a given. and i think that the vast majority of measures agree with that. the question is how do you do that and how do you allow taxes to rise at the same time you fix the real problem and that's uncontrolled entitlement spending and a government that has grown massively. >> i think if the house stands for anything, it's cut government spending as tom coburn said...
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i think only john boehner and the president of the united states right now have the most information about how that will unfold but you know what? the night of the election everybody told me it was going to be a long night and we'd wait weeks and weeks and it was over by 11:00. sometimes this institution when under the right pressure can surprise you. the fiscal cliff is a policy choice, the leaders instituted this to make good on their actions and they better make good on the public. >> i got a telecom cable question. jeff bucchus. >> he made the input, joe, andrew. your question is you changed the input on the tv and you get -- >> he says you shouldn't worry about cord cutters, they should worry about cord nevers, entire generation of people not hooking themselves up at all. do you agree with him? >> one of the things we're seeing in the down economy is so many young people are moving back home with their parents, seeing less of the young college kid opening up his apartment, calling up the cable guy, connecting up and being committed to the programming. lots of programming is avai
i think only john boehner and the president of the united states right now have the most information about how that will unfold but you know what? the night of the election everybody told me it was going to be a long night and we'd wait weeks and weeks and it was over by 11:00. sometimes this institution when under the right pressure can surprise you. the fiscal cliff is a policy choice, the leaders instituted this to make good on their actions and they better make good on the public. >>...